American baseball player and manager
Bobby Valentine

Robert John "Bobby V" Valentine is an American professional baseball manager and former player who is currently the manager of the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball (MLB). As a player, Valentine played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1969, 1971–1972), California Angels (1973–1975), New York Mets (1977–1978), and Seattle Mariners (1979) in MLB.

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5 Best Sports Bars to Watch the NCAA Tournament

Huffington Post - almost 3 years

With the Division I Championship right around the corner, things are heating up fast in men's college basketball. Of course, a pitcher of beer and a basket of wings can only add to the excitement, which is why we've compiled this list of the best sports bars across the country. From classic neighborhood joints to sleek gastropubs, our favorites all share a few common features -- great food, big TVs (the more the better) and a lively atmosphere that draws you into the action.
The 40/40 Club
New York City, NY
This sleek New York lounge from hip hop artist-entrepreneur Jay-Z features memorabilia-lined walls and state-of-the-art LED TV displays that bring the game to your barstool. Hungry sports fans can choose from a menu of upscale pub fare, including pizza, chicken empanadas and catfish fingers served with Cajun rémoulade.
Read a complete review of The 40/40 Club
Bobby Valentine's Sports Gallery Cafe
Stamford, CT
Bobby Valentine's Sports Gallery Cafe is no ordi...

I was in an Irish pub in Madrid when I watched the Red Sox come back against the Yankees in 2004. Because Spain is nine hours ahead, the games aired in the middle of the night.
I'm not even a Red Sox fan, but it was clear something special was happening. As someone who loves the game, I needed to be there to watch it happen, even if it meant swigging Guinness pints at 4 a.m. on successive school nights. Plus, it's our collective duty to root against the Yankees, so I was doing my part.
The comeback from three games down and the World Series sweep that followed were uniquely incredible.
Last night was special, especially in the wake of the Boston bombings, but it's a speck of dust compared to what happened in 2004, and i think it's important to explicitly recognize it as such.
In 2004, decades of torture were lifted in the most improbable of ways. Icing was applied to the cake just three years later when the Red Sox did it again. Now the team has three championships in less ...

-- Big Papi, Dustin Pedroia and the bearded guys from Boston. Michael Wacha, Trevor Rosenthal and those fresh mugs from St. Louis.
Pretty neat face-off in this World Series. Cardinals-Red Sox, once again in October. Fully rested, they'll open Wednesday night at Fenway Park.
Postseason stars from past and present — Carlos Beltran, David Freese, John Lackey, David Ortiz and Adam Wainwright.
Juicy plotlines — can Gold Glove catcher Yadier Molina shut down Jacoby Ellsbury and the runnin' Red Sox? Can all-world closer Koji Uehara stop Matt Holliday and the Cardinals?
Plus, plenty of history — think Stan Musial vs. Ted Williams in 1946, Bob Gibson vs. Carl Yastrzemski in '67 or Pedro Martinez vs. Albert Pujols in 2004. Or, perhaps more memorably that last time, Curt Schilling and the bloody sock vs. The Curse.
The Red Sox and Cardinals are hardly arch enemies, however. They haven't played since Kevin Youkilis homered over the Green Monster in the 13th inning on June 22, 2008.
Th...

With the Red Sox clinching the ALDS and in a race for the AL pennant, I got to thinking about the incredible turnaround the team has had compared to the past two seasons. Who would have thought, given the epic Red Sox meltdown of September 2011 and last year's Bobby Valentine debacle, that we would now be here? ... Read Full Post

BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox waited four years to get back to baseball's postseason. They were more than happy to put off their playoff celebration one more day.
One game after securing their first playoff appearance since 2009, the Red Sox clinched the AL East title on Friday night, getting seven strong innings from Jon Lester to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3. The victory gave Boston 94 wins, 11 more than the Tampa Bay Rays with only 10 games remaining.
"We're going back to the playoffs," said designated hitter David Ortiz, who joined his teammates in revelry on the mound already wearing a ski mask to protect his eyes from the postgame spray of champagne and beer. "People have got to believe we've got a good team. We're going to take this all the way there."
The Red Sox did little to celebrate after assuring themselves of no worse than a wild-card spot on Thursday. Instead, the team brought out the cigars on Friday after earning their first division title since 2007 – a victory...

Julia Stiles is in the middle of a pretty successful April. The New York-born actress has a new film, "It's a Disaster," arriving in limited release on April 12; the Oscar-winning "Silver Linings Playbook," in which Stiles played a supporting role, is out on Blu-ray on April 30; and her favorite baseball team, the New York Mets, has started the 2013 baseball season with an above .500 record.
"I like to reserve my judgement and excitement and don't even watch baseball until later in the season," Stiles, an avid Mets fan, told The Huffington Post during a recent interview. "I know that sounds like me not being a true fan, but I've had so many years of getting really excited about Jenrry Mejia or the other new prospects at the beginning of the season, and then, by September, you can wind up disappointed with the Mets."
At least Mets fans can tell themselves there's always next year; not so much for the unlucky brunch goers in Stiles' new film, "It's A Disaster." The dark c...

The Boston Red Sox have turned the page from a disastrous 2012 season, at least for a day, and did so against their hated rivals from New York. Shane Victorino drove in three runs and Jon Lester pitched five solid innings, as the Red Sox opened the John Farrell era with an 8-2 win over the injury- plagued Yankees. Farrell, the former Red Sox pitching coach who had skippered the Toronto Blue Jays for the past two seasons, was hired to replace Bobby Valentine after a 93-loss campaign, Boston's worst since 1965. Lester (1-0) surrendered a pair of runs on five hits and two walks with seven strikeouts to earn the victory in his third straight Opening Day start. The reigning American League East champion Yankees began their season with a depleted lineup, as regulars Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson and Alex Rodriguez are all on the disabled list. Francisco Cervelli drove in the only...

NEW YORK — Jackie Bradley Jr. and the Red Sox were daring on the basepaths. Jon Lester and the Boston bullpen were aggressive against a barely recognizable New York Yankees' lineup.
The Red Sox looked as if they were in a hurry to put a dreadful 2012 season behind them. They're off to an impressive start, giving new manager John Farrell an 8-2 win on opening day Monday.
"I think how you saw it (Monday) is how we can win a lot of ballgames," new designated hitter Jonny Gomes said. "It was kind of all there early."
Shane Victorino led a revamped Red Sox lineup with three RBIs and Bradley walked three times and scored twice in his big league debut. Boston's big day against CC Sabathia (0-1) came a year after it lost its first three games under Bobby Valentine and went on to a 69-93 finish.
Facing a Yankees lineup minus injured Derek Jeter for the first time since 2001 and just three starters from opening day a year ago, Lester (1-0) gave up five hits and two r...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- It's hard to bet against the New York Yankees.
All the legends. All the history. All the championships.
But it's time to declare their time has passed, at least for this season.
All of a sudden, the Yankees have grown old. Real old. So old they should try to work out some sort of sponsorship deal with AARP. Heck, it's going to seem like old-timer's day all summer at Yankee Stadium. The only way you'll be able to tell any difference is when Yogi Berra rides out in a car, which means it actually is old-timer's day. (Then again, he's only 87; the Yanks might have plans to put him behind the plate.)
Sorry, there's just no way to see this group of banged-up geezers getting back to the playoffs, unless everyone else in the AL East falls apart.
"If we win, then we're experienced," shortstop Derek Jeter said the other day, still in the midst of his comeback from a broken ankle. "If we lose, we're old."
We're betting on the latter.
You ca...

Happy Wednesday everyone, here's my Top 5 for February 27, 2013 from Len Berman at www.ThatsSports.com. 1. Quick Hits
Will anyone win the NCAA basketball tournament? Another #1 bites the dust as Minnesota takes down Indiana 77-73. It's the seventh time the #1 team has lost this season.
Will anyone prevent Miami from winning the NBA title? The Heat made it 12 straight wins with a double overtime win over Sacramento last night. LeBron James had 40 points and 16 assists.
Indiana and Golden State scuffled their way into the stands. Surprisingly only one ejection.
Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak admits the team fired coach Mike Brown after just five games due to impatience with the declining health of team owner Jerry Buss.
Former Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine has taken over as athletic director of Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. Reflecting on last year he said, "I thought I did a hell of a job in Boston... Connie Mack wasn't going to win wi...

Raymond Seitz, former Ambassador to the Court of St James, wrote an enjoyable book called Over Here wherein he highlighted the subtle but pervasive differences between the English and Americans, even as the countries share the same language, TV shows, music, movies and upscale sushi restaurants. One of Seitz's insights (inseitz?) was that the British like to perform in their everyday lives -- as in "All the world's a stage". He cited (seited?) interactions of neighbors and party-goers, but passed up an obvious example in the behavior of fans at English football matches. In contrast to America, where fans are definitively an audience insistent on being entertained by Jumbotrons and cheerleaders, in England the fans are players in the production. News accounts of the matches always mention the atmosphere, meaning the contributions of the fans to the event. At a match last week between Chelsea, champions of Europe, and Manchester City, champions of England, the football was dull...

S.F. Astrologer's 3-Year Research Study Concludes
I've been a baseball fan all my life and I'm an astrologer. It's also time I came clean and admitted I'm a "recovering" Chicago Cubs fan. In fact, I'm in a special support group for losers -- with other die-hard Cubs fans like George Will, Jimmy Buffett, John Cusack, and Bill Murray.
After 35 years of studying astrology and observing the business of baseball, I began to notice that the worst player contracts were consistently signed (or negotiated) during a planetary event known as Mercury Retrograde.
My three-year research study shows:
There is a 90 percent probability that a player signed during Mercury Retrograde will not perform to the expectations of his contract.
Over the past three years, GMs have wasted1 billion in bad player contracts, "signed" during Mercury Retrograde. You may ask, "How do sharp, intelligent baseball executives who are responsible for annual player budgets of $100 to $200 ...

TBS had originally planned to feature Valentine as a studio analyst during its MLB on TBS coverage for the 2013 postseason, but reportedly declined to do so after the negative publicity his comments attracted.

In 2013, on the twelfth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Valentine made comments that accused the New York Yankees of not contributing support to the New York community in the wake of the attacks.

On February 22, 2013, Valentine was named athletic director at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Valentine has also served as the Director of Public Safety & Health for the city of Stamford, Connecticut and an analyst for ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. In February 2013, CBSSports.com hired Bobby Valentine to represent its Fantasy Sports business, including running a viral marketing campaign in which he made fun of the many times he was fired in his career and gave fans a chance to "Hire or Fire Bobby V" one more time.

Valentine was fired by the Red Sox on October 4, 2012, just one day after the conclusion of the regular season.

Valentine's first and only season with Boston was marred by injuries, in-fighting, clubhouse drama, public disagreements with players, and a tumultuous relationship with his fellow coaches. Under Valentine's management, the 2012 Red Sox finished 69–93 (last in AL East), their worst record in 47 years.

2011

Age 60

In 2011, Mayor Michael Pavia named Valentine Director of Public Safety for the city of Stamford, Connecticut.

Valentine was introduced by Red Sox General Manager Ben Cherington on December 2, 2011, and chose to wear number 25 in honor of the late Tony Conigliaro, with whom he briefly roomed during spring training 1976 with the San Diego Padres.

As recently as June 19, 2011, news outlets reported that Valentine was once again a candidate for the Florida Marlins managerial position after the ballclub free fell in the standings.

However, Valentine confirmed he was no longer a candidate for the position after the Florida Marlins owner, Jeffrey Loria stated that Edwin Rodriguez, the interim manager they summoned to replace Gonzalez, will manage the team through the 2010 season.

2009

Age 58

He made his broadcasting debut for the 2009 American and National League Championship Series and World Series.

The Marines decided to let Valentine go after the 2009 season after an extensive smear campaign led by club president Ryuzo Setoyama, which ironically backfired and resulted in an overflow of support for Valentine by local fans.

In 2008, Valentine was the subject of the ESPN Films documentary "The Zen of Bobby V." The film followed Valentine and his 2007 Chiba Lotte Marines team. "The Zen of Bobby V." was an official selection at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.

2005

Age 54

Following their Japan Series championship, the Marines won the inaugural Asia Series by defeating the Samsung Lions of the Korea Baseball Organization in November 2005.

On October 27, 2005, Valentine issued a challenge to the World Series champion Chicago White Sox on behalf of the Chiba Lotte Marines.

In 2004, Valentine began his second stint as manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines.

2002

Age 51

Valentine won the 2002 Branch Rickey Award for his donations and personal work with survivors of the September 11 attacks.

FORTIES

2000

Age 49

In early 2000, Valentine was at the center of what would be called "The Whartongate Affair", in which he allegedly mentioned to students at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business somewhat cynical, insider comments regarding a handful of Mets players and the organization as a whole. The Mets returned the following season, finishing the year with a 94–68 record and another wild card playoff berth. This time, the Mets would not be denied the pennant, winning the 2000 National League Championship Series by defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in five games (4–1).

Valentine had an uneasy, if not volatile relationship with general manager Steve Phillips, who fired three of Valentine's coaches and selected the replacements himself during the 1999 season (in a move many observers felt was an attempt to get Valentine to quit) and eventually fired him after the 2002 season.

On Wednesday, June 15, 1977, the New York Mets traded Dave Kingman to the San Diego Padres for minor league pitcher Paul Siebert and Valentine, sent Tom Seaver to the Cincinnati Reds for Pat Zachry, Doug Flynn, Steve Henderson, and Dan Norman, and Mike Phillips to the St. Louis Cardinals for Joel Youngblood.

In 1974, Valentine made 414 plate appearances in the utility role, the second most of his career, and batted .261 with three home runs.

1973

Age 22

Valentine missed the remainder of the 1973 season and Valentine never regained his speed.

1972

Age 21

His batting average improved to .274 in 1972, but he was not showing his early promise as a major leaguer, and following the season, he was packaged in a trade along with Frank Robinson, Billy Grabarkewitz, Bill Singer and Mike Strahler to the California Angels for Andy Messersmith and Ken McMullen.

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